So I keep meaning to make posts. Posts about games I've played lately (Journey was *amazing*), posts about fun things I've done lately, posts about things I'm looking forward to. But I haven't done that, because work has sucked and completely drained my will to write when I actually have time. Still, it's the last day of June and I haven't ( Read more... )

I absolutely love this quote from an article on Jonathan Ericsson on improving his defense skills in the NHL: "That’s a process you need to learn, unless you’re Nick Lidstrom, where you don’t do anything wrong."

I still miss Lidstrom, but I think his successors are starting to show that the team is in good hands.

Recently I bought some e-short story collections from Amazon to read via my browser (I don't own a Kindle). I buy them electronically rather than physically because they're less expensive that way, the individual stories tend to be hit or miss, and the library generally doesn't get copies. What this also means is that I generally spread out my ( Read more... )

This article answers a question I've had for some time now: if Ferris Bueller's Day Off is set in Chicago, why is Cameron wearing Gordie Howe's Red Wings jersey? Detroit and Chicago are old NHL rivals, so it's equivalent to wearing Red Sox gear in New York ( Read more... )

I've spent most of my gaming time over the past couple of months with a Final Fantasy of one sort or another. Since my last entry, I've backburnered FF3 in favor of FF11's new expansion, Seekers of Adoulin, and FF13-2. I managed to finish FF13-2 in less than three months, which is actually the fastest I've gone through an FF game in a while. ( Read more... )

One thing I meant to include in yesterday's entry is that I'm a bit annoyed by the post-job swap stat reduction in FF3 DS. If nothing else, it discourages repeated swapping to see all the characters in their cute outfits! I realize the original version had some sort of points restriction system, but the original version also had all the ( Read more... )

...namely, the one that really is FF3 and not the original US release of FF6 ( Read more... )

Our printer at work is notoriously unreliable. I think any printer that gets used frequently for a variety of jobs tends to malfunction, but ours seems to break down pretty often ( Read more... )

Oh. Oh hey, look. It's December 22, 2012, and we're all still here.

I give an incredulous "...really?" to people who were actually taking this end of the world thing seriously, and wish everyone a happy 13.0.0.0.1 today!

grysar and I finished decorating the Christmas tree last night. All we have to do now is set up the train, and decorating is finished. Despite getting a later start on decorating this year than we have in past years, we've actually ended up putting up more decorations. So this is partly a note to myself in future years that it's not about getting a ( Read more... )